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How much money does a AAS degree in manufacturing engineering make?

5,000


What is the lowest degree in civil engineering?

There are community colleges that offer an associate of applied science (AAS) degree in civil engineering technology. However, for the professional degree, the minimum degree requirement is a bachelor's degree from a college or university that is accredited by the requisite professional body. Also be aware that further post-graduate study may be required to achieve professional status.


What is a template class in c plus plus?

Templates allow us to reduce the need to write duplicate code ourselves and force the compiler to duplicate the code for us. This saves a great deal of time (and money) and greatly reduces code maintenance because there's only one version of the implementation to modify. This greatly reduces the chances of us making a mistake because the compiler will propagate all the changes for us. Moreover, we don't need to second-guess what data types we might need to cater for in the future because the compiler will generate specific versions on an as-required basis, according to the types we actually use -- including those we haven't yet designed!You've probably been taught that code duplication is a bad thing -- and you'd be right -- but it is also a necessary evil. The difference with templates is that rather than placing the onus upon the programmer to ensure the code duplication is consistent, the onus is placed entirely upon the compiler.So when do we need code duplication? We need it whenever the implementation of a function or a class differs only in the type of data they operate upon. That is, one class or function definition that caters for any data type, rather than creating many separate classes or functions for each data type. If the implementations are exactly the same in every way, then duplicate code is inevitable. It's simply a matter of whether we write it ourselves and accept all the pitfalls that come with that, or we let the compiler do all the donkey work for us. The latter is always the preferred option every time.Consider the following simple example:int max(int a, int b){ return(a